Last week, I gave two talks about Strata+Hadoop World. These talks covered some of the up and coming technologies in Big Data. I describe Strata as the Super Bowl of Big Data conferences. This is where you’ll find the best minds talking about the present and...
In the first post in the series, I talked about Big Data’s first and last mile problems. I showed how the first mile problems could be solved with Kafka. In this post, I’m going to talk about the last mile problems. Big Data Last Mile With Big Data...
See part 2 in the series. In telecommunications, there is the term “last mile”. It refers to getting the connection to customer. It’s the last mile between the company’s infrastructure and the customer’s location. We have similar issues...
There’s a sad thing that’s limiting our growth as programmers. We (programmers) don’t invest in ourselves like other professions. The business person will happily spend $3,000 to attend a class to improve a part of their business. The marketing...
After years of teaching Big Data, I’ve come up with the best explanation of why it isn’t easy, cheap, or quick. I wrote the in-depth piece published on...
Today’s blog post comes from a question from a subscriber on my mailing list. The question come from Alpesh D.: I have been getting your emails and they all seem to make sense. However, did I understand it correct that you believe all big data engineers need to...
